You are probably now dying to know, like I was, just how many Howard Huangs
there can possibly be in the United States. Thanks to some pioneering work by
William Eric Voss, we can make
a rough, but more or less scientific, estimate.

If this percentage holds among the Huangs, then in the United States
there must be 20 Howard Huangs!

To put this amazing fact in another perspective, there is one Howard Huang out
of every 14,492,753 people. At the current net birth rate of one person every
nine seconds, a new Howard Huang is added every 4.16 years.

By now you are probably dying to know estimates for some other famous names.
Using this method, there are 2,996 Michael Jordans, 487 George Bushes and 2
Britney Spearses.